How Dutch poets ensure no one dies forgotten: The Lonely Funeral Project
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The Lonely Funeral Project, launched in the Netherlands by poet Frank Starik in 2002, ensures that people who die without anyone to attend their funeral are honored by a poet who writes and reads a poem based on whatever is known about their life. The project began with poet Bart Droog in 2001 and expanded into a network of poets who consciously acknowledge the lives of those who would otherwise be forgotten in death.
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· 3 pulledTwo decades ago, some poets in the Netherlands decided that people not having anyone attend their funeral was an unacceptable ending for a human life.
In 2001, a poet named Bart Droog began attending the funerals of people who had no one to attend them and honoring the dead with a poem based on whatever was known about their life.
Dutch poet and artist Frank Starik took the idea even further, launching The Lonely Funeral project to ensure that someone who cares consciously acknowledges the life of a person who has died.
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